Alain Joissains

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Alain Joissains
NationalityFrench
OccupationPolitician
Spouse Maryse Joissains-Masini (divorced)
Children Sophie Joissains

Alain Joissains is a French politician. He served as the Mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1978 to 1983.

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Biography

Early life

His father was a policeman. [1] He started working as a cabin boy at the age of fifteen and as a stevedore in Toulon by the age of seventeen. [1] He studied law at Aix-Marseille University and received a doctorate. [1] He started working as a lawyer in Aix. [1]

Political career

He became interested in politics upon his disappointment in General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)'s abandonment of the harkis during the Algerian War of 1954-1962. [1] Instead, he supported Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924-2006) and joined the Radical Party, a centre-right political party. [2]

He served as the Mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1978 to 1983. [2] [3] During his tenure, he lowered the local tax by 2%, increased the number of pocket parks and car-parks, and encouraged low-income inhabitants to purchase the council flats they lived in. By January 1983, as he was set to be re-elected as mayor with a 66% majority, he was accused by the tabloid newspaper Le Canard enchaîné of embezzlement in order to pay for the construction of his father-in-law's house in Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon. [1] [3] He retorted that Gaston Defferre (1910-1986), who then served as Mayor of adjacent Marseille and as Minister of Interior Affairs, had schemed this plot to squander his chances of reelection. [1] However, he did receive a two-year suspended prison sentence for embezzlement. [1] Subsequently, his father-in-law committed suicide and he got divorced. [1] However, he still maintained he was innocent. [3]

In 1995, he published a memoir he co-wrote with his wife about his experience, entitled Sang et or: combat pour Aix-en-Provence (English: Blood and gold: the fight for Aix-en-Provence).

From 2001 to 2008, he served as an assistant to the Mayor of Aix, then his former wife. [2] [3] [4] He stepped down after he was accused of being paid too much for his position due to possible cronyism. [3] [4] [5] However, his wife suggested he was paid as much as former assistants to the Mayors of Aix. [2] Even though he no longer gets paid, he still attends the meetings of the city council, when he sits behind his wife. [3]

Personal life

He was married to Maryse Joissains-Masini, who has served as the mayor of Aix-en-Provence since 2001. [2] [3] They have a daughter, Sophie Joissains, who serves as a French senator. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Aix-en-provence : La surprise Joissains Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine , Le Point, 22/01/2007
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Le contrat d'Alain Joissains annulé ?, La Provence , 24/09/2013
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 La dynastie Joissains intéresse les policiers, Paris Match , December 26, 2013
  4. 1 2 Alain Joissains va-t-il devoir rembourser son trop gros salaire?, La Provence, 02/11/200
  5. ↑ Yvan Stefanovitch, La caste des 500: enquête sur les princes de la république, Lattès, 2010, p. 290
  6. ↑ Google Books
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Preceded by Mayor of Aix-en-Provence
1978-1983		Succeeded by
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